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Book at Bedtime: Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies

Jamie Parker

Sascha Arango

Sally Marmion

Justine Willett

Book at Bedtime: Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies: Episode 1: My love, this is not going to end well

Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies

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Episode 1: My love, this is not going to end well

My love, this is not going to end well

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Henry's editor, and mistress, has some news.

In 'Reading Europe', Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the best in contemporary literature with this hugely successful German thriller set on a small cliff-top town in which everyone has a secret.

Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to protect. He has been lucky until now, but when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream begins to unravel.
Today: Henry's editor - and mistress - has some news...
Reader: Jamie Parker
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett
Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned screenwriters, whose award-winning crime dramas are television events of the year. This, his first novel, has been a huge bestseller in Germany.
Translated by Imogen Taylor.

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Sascha Arango's dark thriller set in small-town Germany, where everyone has a secret.

Sascha Arango's dark thriller set in small-town Germany, where everyone has a secret. Abridged by Sally Marmion. Read by Jamie Parker.

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